tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post1293131091594302459..comments2015-01-22T06:35:41.757+00:00Comments on The Junior Doctor: Now I KnowDr Michael Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340927185641717290noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-79140139306862121202013-02-08T12:27:18.380+00:002013-02-08T12:27:18.380+00:00Thanks for sharing this information on web
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Great post
I&#39;m not a &#39;medical&#39; pers...Hi<br />Great post<br />I&#39;m not a &#39;medical&#39; person, and I have no medical experience but my son was in intensive care last year. He was 5 weeks old, and went into cardiac arrest at home. His heart had stopped (and tests showed no oxygen was reaching his brain) for nearly half an hour when the resus team managed to ventilate him, and he was taken up to ICU. He had suffered irreversible brain damage and we later took the decision to turn off his life support.<br />The ICU struck me as a very grim, depressing place to be honest, and I have nothing but respect for staff who choose to work there.It must be very difficult working with patients who are unlikely to get significantly better. As you say - doctors go into the profession because of a desire to make people better - it must be very hard working in an environment where most of your patients have little prospect of recovery.<br />From a patient&#39;s point of view, I understand your decision totally.purpleheartshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14426038659625093407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-62028276039319816062009-10-30T15:07:04.483+00:002009-10-30T15:07:04.483+00:00It&#39;s amazing how u&#39;ve managed to describe ...It&#39;s amazing how u&#39;ve managed to describe EXACTLY how my friends n I feel working in the ICU. I&#39;m a medical officer into my second year in the anaesthesiology and intensive care dept in one of the busiest general hospitals in Malaysia. we&#39;re about 1 hour away from Kuala Lumpur.<br />Some common things we share:<br />Annoying unnecessary referrals from the wards(mainly becoz some of the patients have been mismanaged &amp; they expect me to perform a miracle, or for some peripheral or central line setting when it&#39;s so obvious they never attempted themselves yet); <br />ICU doctors expected to play God and bring people back from the brink of death;<br />dealing with distraught relatives daily;<br />handling an overload of critically ill patients when the ICU is full, sometimes I have to ventilate up to 12-15 patients in the general ward on portable ventilators&amp; BIPAP(although I dont&#39;t think u guys over there ever do this at all);<br />etc. etc..the list goes on<br />My interest to work in ICU hasn&#39;t waned yet, and I don&#39;t see myself working in a different field. <br />I hope I don&#39;t burn out anytime soon.<br />p.s.I still can&#39;t stop grinning to myself reading your blog entry, it&#39;s amazing how similar we feel when we&#39;re halfway around the worldFerozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306113675395625394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-361068987084615612009-10-21T21:12:30.162+00:002009-10-21T21:12:30.162+00:00You know I can&#39;t get this post out of my head....You know I can&#39;t get this post out of my head. I never realised that not all anaesthetists liked ITU. Now I&#39;m starting to realise that I might be a strange sort of person who could do ITU. I&#39;m wondering if this means I should. I&#39;m really struggling with it. <br /><br />I did medical training because I thought MRCP would be a good basis for any future career. And then feel into Geriatrics because I didn&#39;t want to do anything else. I mentioned at geriatric teaching today I was thinking of becoming an intensivist - and got odd looks all round! <br /><br />I&#39;m sure it&#39;s just a brief addiction because I&#39;ve saved 5 out of the last 6 arrests I&#39;ve led. And actually saved - expected to leave hosptial, not just dragged things out for longer as usually happens.doctorzhttp://doctorz.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-23838787286138504352009-10-21T15:14:12.913+00:002009-10-21T15:14:12.913+00:00go into dermatology for a nice and rewarding caree...go into dermatology for a nice and rewarding careerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-15978702620220598142009-10-21T11:59:27.568+00:002009-10-21T11:59:27.568+00:00Thanks Genenieve &amp; Dr Z
I have nothing but re...Thanks Genenieve &amp; Dr Z<br /><br />I have nothing but respect for the people who do ICU, I can certainly see the appeal, but for me I find the rewards too few and far between to warrant all the physical and emotional effort that ICU requires. It&#39;s just a personal thing I supposeDr Michael Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05340927185641717290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-50220323462433558292009-10-20T23:21:10.604+00:002009-10-20T23:21:10.604+00:00Hi Michael.
Great post. It&#39;s really got me ...Hi Michael. <br /><br /><br />Great post. It&#39;s really got me thinking.<br /><br />Medics cover ITU over night in our hopsital. And The thing is that I really like all of this stuff. I&#39;m even ok with the relatives and the high stakes. I don&#39;t find looking after it too stressful. <br /><br />The thing is that I&#39;m a geriatrician by trade. If I still enjoy it after a year then I might apply to anaesthetics to be an intensivist. After all MRCP and a year as a med reg won&#39;t do any harm will it?doctorzhttp://doctorz.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482732367812174734.post-75021833077159667622009-10-17T16:08:34.397+00:002009-10-17T16:08:34.397+00:00Excellent post!
I&#39;m a 3rd midwifery student/a...Excellent post!<br /><br />I&#39;m a 3rd midwifery student/aspiring medical student with an interest in anaesthetics.<br /><br />I&#39;ve mostly observed obstetric anaesthesia and have been dying to get to main theatre and the ICU if possible... your account has really brought to life what the ICU is like, however I suspect you can never really imagine until you have actually &#39;been there and got the t-shirt&#39; as it may be.Genevièvehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614370522703337141noreply@blogger.com